Taming the Corpus From Inflection and Lexis to Interpretation /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fidler, Masako (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Cvrček, Václav (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences,
• Subjects: Statistics .; Corpora (Linguistics).; Balto-Slavic languages.; Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law.; Corpus Linguistics.; Slavic and Baltic Languages.

This book bridges the current quantitative and qualitative text analyses, using grammar as a crucial source of investigation. Taking data from Czech, an inflected language, in which the most optimal conditions to respond to this research question are met, the book expands the understanding of langua...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Do users' reading skills and difficulty ratings for texts affect choices and evaluations?- Chapter 3. Vowel Disharmony in Czech Words and Stems
• Chapter 4. Morphological Richness of Text
• Chapter 5. Collocation-driven method of discerning rhymes (in Czech, English, and French poetry)
• Chapter 6. Prominent POS-grams and n-grams in translated Czech in the mirror of the English source texts
• Chapter 7. Revolution with a "Human" Face: A Corpus Approach to the Semantics of Czech lidskost
• Chapter 8. Keeping and bearing arms in Czech
• Chapter 9. Image of politicians and gender in Czech daily newspapers
• Chapter 10. Going beyond "aboutness": A quantitative analysis of Sputnik Czech Republic.